That’s where contestant Topaz Brady voted for the wrong contestant by mistake, giving the $100,000 prize to Jillian MacLaughlin, leaving her friend Gary Levy (a.k.a. “Gary Glitter”) out in the cold.
“In no universe could I have imagined that Topaz Brady could have given the win to her arch-rival and not her best friend,” says Big Brother host Arisa Cox in an interview.
“I literally watched her go through all the stages of grief, everything from anger, denial, sadness to acceptance.”
That finale is going to be hard to beat, acknowledges Cox, as Season 2 of Big Brother Canada wraps up Thursday at 9 p.m. on Slice. But we’re already guaranteed one shocker, at least for the remaining two house guests in the finale. Canada, for the first time, gets to vote on the outcome.
The final three contestants will again vie for $100,000, including a trip to anywhere in the world for $10,000 and a $25,000 home makeover from The Brick.
Big Brother Canada, shot in Toronto, is a real-life Truman Show, based on an original Dutch TV series. The “house guests” are stuck in a fabricated home for over two months, voting each other off to win prizes.
It is also a bit of a social experiment, mixing people with diverse views in a confined space. Like rats in a cage, much conflict ensues. Cox’s cousin, a police officer, was a guest in the audience the night of the first finale.
“She almost got onstage wondering where the security was. She thought Topaz was going to hurt me!” laughs Cox, who was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for her supremely composed performance. “(Topaz) was holding my hand and pleading.
Her eyes were saying don’t do this to me.”
In an exclusive to the Star, Cox shares, in her own words, her top five shocker moments from this season of Big Brother Canada:
5. Kenny coming out
House guest Kenny wasn’t just known as the hot model with the giant beard, he also garnered international headlines for his choice to remain closeted in the Big Brother House to gain favour with potentially smitten female house guests. Until that is, he chose a moment in the sunshine to drop a bomb on his bestie in the house, Sarah. “I’m gay!” was met with joy and hugs and a profound weight being lifted off the shoulders of one of the most dangerous players in the house. A few days later, Kenny chose another sun-soaked moment to come out to the rest of the house guests, which was just as enjoyable. Sadly, he was turfed not long after, but he left the house knowing he had left on real terms, being who he really was.
4. Ika and the letters from home
This might have been one of the most dramatic and compelling pieces of reality television I have ever seen (second only to last season’s insane finale). House guest Ika knew she was about to be voted out of the house but won one last challenge — one that she hoped would keep her in the game. Alas, Ika was led into the closed-off backyard for a brutal choice: on one side was a $5,000 cheque; on the other, letters from home for all the other house guests. In the middle: a shredder. What Ika didn’t know was that the house guests were watching her make this decision, live, from the living room. After considering the pros and cons of each move Ika chose to keep the money, then proceeded to verbally eviscerate each house guest while happily shredding their letters. Inside the house, chaos ensued. Middle fingers were thrown up, tears were shed, extreme profanity was hurled. Then the garage doors opened and Ika quickly realized her competitors had been watching the entire sordid affair unfold. Most people would have crumpled. Ika took it like a champ. And was evicted soon thereafter.
3. Neda discovers the secret room
From the start, Neda has been known as one of the smartest and most ruthless players in the house. Her place in the final three is well deserved. Watching her roll with whatever Big Brother threw at her was a joy to watch. After winning a particularly critical “Head of Household” competition, she was whisked off to the diary room. But instead of a usual diary session she was blindfolded and taken to the secret room, where her jaw hit the ground so hard I thought she bruised it. She spent the next 24 hours watching her fellow house guests on screens, then had just five minutes to nominate two house guests, which viewers enjoyed in real time. Loved it.
2. Sabrina winning Head of Household
Sabrina was known as a lot of things inside the house: the drama queen, the hairdresser, the woman who could convince anyone of anything. What she wasn’t known as was a winner. Sabrina had never won an HOH challenge, or a POV challenge, or any challenge for that matter. She had been on the block six times and never went home, in itself an incredible feat. But finally, Sabrina pulled it out of nowhere and shocked everyone when she won her very first Head of Household challenge, securing her place in the final three. She was like a cat with nine lives . . . tonight we’ll see if her tenacity takes her all the way to the end.
1. The seventh jury member is . . . Canada
This will be a pretty shocking revelation to the house, considering how Big Brother works. When the cast is whittled down to the final two usually the last seven house guests to be evicted (who have been sequestered the entire time) make up the jury that votes on the winner. This year, we’re calling on our incredibly digitally engaged fans to do the same, meaning that the country has an unprecedented amount of control on the game. Especially when it looks to be a vote as close as this one. It’s my favourite shocker yet and I have a feeling we might be in for another one in the finale!
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